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Re: A Berkeley Study That Portrays Liberalism Positively?!!
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Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:25:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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J2 (??... SOMEBODY trimmed the attributions in their post!) said:
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What bothers me
most about this (to Tim as well) is it assumes that people are cast somehow
in their political viewpoints. Doesn’t make sense to assume that, it seems
to me.
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What it says is that about 7% of a persons political viewpoint has a
correlation with their personality. Which seems reasonable to me.
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Well, no kidding! But correlation of a subjective trait is too nebulous to
be a useful predictor. “Whininess” is too vague a factor IMO to be usefully
(ie., consistently, objectively) gauged.
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The fact that the article actually discusses this is why I said it’s a
pretty good science article. It’s rare to see any mention of the REAL
statistical conclusions.
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See Sore Thumbs (the webcomic) lately. I’d give you a link but not from behind
this firewall...
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